Andrew Yang: ‘Our Country Has Become Excessively Punitive and Vindictive About Remarks That People Find Offensive or Racist’
‘We need to try and move beyond that if we can, particularly in a case where the person is in this case to me like a comedian whose words should be take in a slightly different light’
Sep 15, 2019 11:00 AM
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YANG: "Well there is a number of reactions to my call for forgiving Shane Gillis and I’ve experienced a lot of anti-Asian racism throughout my upbringing. And it hurts. It is something that is very real. And I do think anti-Asian racial epithets are not taken as seriously as slurs against other groups. But at the same time, bigger picture, I believe that our country has become excessively punitive and vindictive about remarks that people find offensive or racist and that we need to try and move beyond that if we can, particularly in a case where the person is in this case to me like a comedian whose words should be take in a slightly different light."